[Leica] IMG: Tree Details

[jhnichols at bellsouth.net (Jim Nichols)]

Ted,

Thanks for your comments.  We also tried the live Christmas tree routine 
once, but the ball was large enough to fill a galvanized wash tub.  After 
relocating it in the yard a couple of times, it finally grew tall enough to 
pose a danger to the power lines across our rear lot line.  After it and a 
bunch of large white pines were taken down by the power company, we settled 
for smaller varieties.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 11:20 PM
Subject: RE: [Leica] IMG: Tree Details


> Jim Nichols offered:
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> Subject: [Leica] IMG: Tree Details
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>>>Several viewers commented on the "nice" tree that I recently removed from
> my backyard.  While I don't usually want to burden the lists with details, 
> I
> don't want people to think I remove trees without good cause. The three
> images below show the problems that caught me by surprise, and led to the
> decision to remove the tree.<<<<<<
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> Hi Jim,
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> Well the whiners and bitchers have never had a limb from a 100 year old 
> Oak
> as big as anyone has ever seen break off in a wind storm and crash through 
> a
> neighbors' house!
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> That's all it took to cut the rest of it down before the next storm 
> dropped
> the remaining part, still huge, on our place. When the arborist came to
> check it out to see if we could save it by removing some of the upper
> branches we were told it should come down as soon as possible due to
> discovered rot throughout much of the main limbs.
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> Did we feel bad about it coming down, sure! Heck we'd lived 25 years of 
> it's
> 100 years, loved the shade in the summer, hated raking the leaves in the
> fall.
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> But you know what? Now it's gone there's a big hole in the sky where it's
> beautiful leafy branches spread out. Today we feel a kind of loss of a
> friend when we look up and it's not there. Yea I know that'll sound stupid
> to some.
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> But do you know what? I don't give a flying hoop in hell how they feel!
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> Oh and in case some dim-light says anything about cutting down trees? How
> many do this?
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> We moved in here June 1981 and we've bought a live Christmas tree about
> eight feet tall each year since. Bring it in the house, decorate it and 
> keep
> the huge root ball damp while it sits in a 16X20 photo tray full of water.
> Good secondary use for the tray. :-)
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> Then the boys give me a hand on New Years Day morning and we plant it
> somewhere around the house as a remembrance of what a wonderful Christmas 
> we
> enjoyed.
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> Yep today we've got lots of really big Christmas trees including the first
> as a towering tree higher than the roof of the house each decorated with
> wonderful memories! :-)
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> Ted
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